Simonides’ New Testament Papyri: Their Production and Purported Provenance
Tommy Wasserman on the most notorious New Testament forger In 2014, when the so-called Gospel of Jesus Wife had been exposed as a
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“Property of a gentleman”: The market of ancient manuscripts and the problem of provenance
Roberta Mazza on cultural artifacts as commodity “The elderly owner of our new Sappho papyrus wishes to remain anonymous, and its provenance is obscure (it
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(Still) Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices
Nicola Denzey Lewis on what we know about Nag Hammadi The find story of the Nag Hammadi codices is well known to anyone
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The Irrepressible Human Voice of Stanley Cavell, 1926-2018
Jonathan Tran on Stanley Cavell As a Harvard graduate student Stanley Cavell was, in his words, “on the road toward a proper dissertation” when
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Origins Forum: Discovery and Interpretation of First-Millennium Manuscripts.
Jennifer Barry and Eva Mroczek on the Origins Forum The lure of new discovery is powerful, and some of the most celebrated finds
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Fragments for Sale: Dead Sea Scrolls
Årstein Justnes on selling scripture Since 2002 more than 75 previously unknown Dead Sea Scroll fragments have surfaced on the antiquities market, and recent
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Batshit Stories: New Tales of Discovering Ancient Texts
Eva Mroczek on stories of discovery In his short story Forevermore, Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon relates the story of a scholar, Adiel Amzeh.
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Gleanings from the Cave of Wonders? Fragments, Forgeries, and “Biblicism” in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Kipp Davis on the treasures of Qumran “Remember, boy. First fetch me the lamp. And then you shall have your reward . .
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A State of Their Own: Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights
Gil Rubin reviews James Loeffler’s Rooted Cosmopolitans In a 1938 speech in Prague, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder and leader of the right-wing Zionist
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Trump and the Specter of Christian Withdrawal
Jonathan Tran on James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology. The Trump presidency provides a kind of Rorschach test for
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